Feeling "competative"?
Hehe not at all. But it will put people to posting more, if they know an answer.
I would have to alter the user table to do this. Question: How many points would a user have on start to award others with? And what happens if he has no points left to award? If a mod marks a thread, would he get the points?
As it is just a fun thing that has no value over the board, I would say, negative points do not exist. People get like 25 credits, and for every satisfying answer they gain a point, and for every question they start they lose two or so. If they have no credits left they are still allowed to post, it is more like a "status" thingy. Ryan will probably win and be filthy rich as he knows a lot
I'm not really sure if the "point accounting" is a good thing, especially for the newbies and "guest" posters. I'm sure I can do something like that, but I'll start with Tylers idea of simply awarding one point for an accepted answer to the one how wrote the answer.
That's also possible ofcourse. I leave it totally up to you
Jorg: Please let me know when you're ready with the second forum. I really have to try this with all the mods you allready use.
Well I don't think I can manage that before the weekend unfortunately. Tonight I am off to the gym, tomorrow playing snooker so friday at the earliest. What I will do is this;
- Create a new test DB
- Copy over the posts from this one
- Prune it heavily
- Copy the php code over from this forum to the test forum
This way we can have the new test forum in place.
A little update: I just implemented the "Awards" stuff.
There now is a second option with which the original poster can mark a question as an "assiting answer", meaning it does not completely solve the problem, but parts of it or gives some good ideas. An assisting answer gets awarded 1 wxAward and and "Accepted Answer" gets 5 wxAwards.
"Assisting answers" show up like this
Neat! This looks really cool and I like the wxAward name
Maybe I can make a few small gfx with a medal thing, where 5 top 'solvers' are placed.. I like the assisting answer idea, it happens a lot that people solve their own problem after a hint from somebody else, and I assume the "assisted answer" can be used for that as well
By the way, what happens when a person marks his own answer as "Accepted" ?
Jorg: You don't happen to use the EasyMOD mod? I tried writing a MOD file and updating a fresh installation with EasyMOD -> didn't work. I guess you'll have to do it by hand...
Updating by hand is ok, you can also make a diff / patch if you want to. I will try to merge the two using a merge tool anyway, or when you have a mod file I will do it using that. The mod file is simply a file that looks like;
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IN: somefile.php
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SEARCH FOR:
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for(i = 0; i < 0; i++)
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ADD AFTER
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etc etc etc
I don't know if there is a tool that can do that ..
Regards,
- Jorgen